Afar Quotes

• Blessed is the servant who loves his brother as much when he is sick and useless as when he is well and an be of service to him. And blessed is he who loves his brother as well when he is afar off as when he is by his side, and who would say nothing behind his back he might not, in love, say before his face.

  Francis of Assisi

  Brother, Integrity, Sibling

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• Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting; The Soul that rises with us, our life's Star, Hath had elsewhere its setting, And cometh from afar.

  William Wordsworth

  Stars, Sleep, Afterlife

  "Ode: Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood" l. 58 (1807)

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• You are the person who has to decide. Whether you'll do it or toss it aside; You are the person who makes up your mind. Whether you'll lead or will linger behind. Whether you'll try for the goal that's afar. Or just be contented to stay where you are.

  Edgar Guest

  Goal, Choices, Mind

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• What better occupation, really, than to spend the evening at the fireside with a book, with the wind beating on the windows and the lamp burning bright...Haven't you ever happened to come across in a book some vague notion that you've had, some obscure idea that returns from afar and that seems to express completely your most subtle feelings?

  Gustave Flaubert

  Book, Wind, Ideas

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• Looking at the earth from afar you realize it is too small for conflict and just big enough for co-operation.

  Yuri Gagarin

  Earth, Realizing, Conflict

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• Beauty and Genius must be kept afar if one would avoid becoming their slave.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Genius, Becoming, Slave

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1893). “Maxims and Reflections”, p.62, Library of Alexandria

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• Oh longing for places that were not Cherished enough in that fleeting hour How I long to make good from afar The forgotten gesture, the additional act.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Long, Fleeting, Gestures

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• On him who wields power gently, the god looks favorably from afar.

  Aeschylus

  Justice, Looks, Mercy

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• It's always easy to judge from afar

  Roberto Mancini

  Judging, Easy, Easy To Judge

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• To study men, we must look close by; to study man, we must learn to look afar; if we are to discover essential characteristics, we must first observe differences.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Science, Men, Discovery

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• Our deeds still travel with us from afar, and what we have been makes us what we are.

  George Eliot

  Travel, Integrity, Journey

  George Eliot (2015). “Middlemarch”, p.765, Booklassic

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• Everything foreign is respected, partly because it comes from afar, partly because it is ready made and perfect.

  Baltasar Gracian

  Perfect, Made, Ready

  Baltasar Gracian, Baltasar Gracián y Morales (2004). “The Art of Worldly Wisdom”, p.114, Shambhala Publications

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• You all know I have terminal cancer—and I have a lot of it. But what you may not know is that stress induces its spread and induces its activity. Stress may even bring it on. Yet stress is the fuel of the activist. This activist loves Oregon more than he loves life. I know I can't have both very long. The trade-offs are all right with me. But if the legacy we helped give Oregon and which made it twinkle from afar—if it goes, then I guess I wouldn't want to live in Oregon anyhow.

  Tom McCall

  Cancer, Stress, Love Life

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• The way is near, but men seek it afar. It is in easy things, but men seek for it in difficult things.

  Mencius

  Men, Way, Easy

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• The American flag, Old Glory, standing tall and flying free over American soil for 228 years is the symbol of our beloved country. It is recognized from near and afar, and many lives have been lost defending it.

  Jeff Miller

  Country, Years, Old Glory

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• Oh never star Was lost here but it rose afar.

  Robert Browning

  Stars, Rose, Losing

  Robert Browning (1994). “The Works of Robert Browning”, p.334, Wordsworth Editions

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• They say that Hope is happiness But genuine Love must prize the past; And Mem'ry wakes the thoughts that bless: They rose first -- they set the last. And all that mem'ry loves the most Was once our only hope to be: And all that hope adored and lost Hath melted into memory. Alas! It is delusion all-- The future cheats us from afar: Nor can we be what we recall, Nor dare we think on what we are.

  Lord Byron

  Memories, Past, Thinking

  George Gordon Byron, “Stanzas For Music: They Say That Hope Is Happiness”

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• Dark the Night, with breath all flowers,
  And tender broken voice that fills
  With ravishment the listening hours,--
  Whisperings, wooings,
  Liquid ripples, and soft ring-dove cooings
  In low-toned rhythm that love's aching stills!
  Dark the night
  Yet is she bright,
  For in her dark she brings the mystic star,
  Trembling yet strong, as is the voice of love,
  From some unknown afar.

  George Eliot

  Strong, Stars, Flower

  George Eliot (19??). “The Complete Works of George Eliot in Eighteen Volumes: Poems”

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• People in Latin America... love America from afar and emulate America in some ways but also hate a lot of things that America does to them.

  David Byrne

  Hate, Latin, America

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• Fame, like the river, is narrowest where it is bred, and broadest afar off.

  William Davenant

  Rivers, Fame

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• Worship your heroes from afar; contact withers them.

  Bill Vaughan

  Hero, Advice, Worship

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• The miracles of the church seem to me to rest not so much upon faces or voices or healing power coming suddenly near to us from afar off, but upon our perceptions being made finer, so that for a moment our eyes can see and our ears can hear what is there about us always.

  Willa Cather

  Healing, Eye, Voice

  Willa Cather (2011). “Death Comes for the Archbishop”, p.50, Vintage

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• Rome - the city of visible history, where the past of a whole hemisphere seems moving in funeral procession with strange ancestral images and trophies gathered from afar.

  George Eliot

  Moving, Past, Cities

  George Eliot (2015). “Middlemarch”, p.211, Booklassic

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• Seek not for fresher founts afar, just drop you bucket where you are.

  Sam Walter Foss

  Keys, Buckets, Where You Are

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• A movie camera is like having someone you have a crush on watching you from afar - you pretend it's not there.

  Tom Stoppard

  Movie, Crush, Cameras

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